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- Revealed, Henry VIII's lost pleasure palace: Amazing scale model recreates Nonsuch Palace more than 300 years after it was destroyed
- Funds secured for Easter Ross's Pictish Nigg cross-slab
- Viking secret puts Ross-shire town on map
- Last chance to see city’s Roman dig site
- Roman hoard of coins found on Bredon Hill
- Deckchair protest halts archaeological survey
- Gold hoard thrown in skip displayed
- Vikings and Scotland: 10 lesser known facts
| Posted: 20 Oct 2011 06:55 AM PDT When it was built, it was hailed as one of the finest buildings of its age – only to be destroyed 150 years later. Now Henry VIII's 'lost' palace can be seen for the first time in more than 300 years – in a scale model based on 50 years of research. The replica of Nonsuch Palace – so named because there was no other like it – took 1,250 hours to make. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Funds secured for Easter Ross's Pictish Nigg cross-slab Posted: 20 Oct 2011 06:53 AM PDT A small voluntary group has secured enough money to conserve and redesign the displaying of an intricately carved Pictish stone in Easter Ross. Nigg Old Trust has received a funding package of £178,000. The Heritage Lottery Fund, Scottish government and European Community Highland Leader fund contributed. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Viking secret puts Ross-shire town on map Posted: 20 Oct 2011 06:52 AM PDT AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL discovery in Dingwall could put the town on the international map and bring major benefits to Ross and Cromarty, experts claimed this week. Geophysical surveys of the Cromartie car park in Dingwall town centre have revealed that it most likely is the site of the long lost meeting place of the Vikings who once ruled Ross. The Highland Council-owned car park was closed to the public for two days last month to see if archaeologists could produce the hard evidence to back up beliefs that it was an important Viking assembly area around 1,000 years ago. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Last chance to see city’s Roman dig site Posted: 20 Oct 2011 06:49 AM PDT ONE of the nation's largest archaeological digs, which has unearthed a treasure trove of relics dating from the Roman era, is being opened up to the public for the last time at the weekend. The excavations overseen by the York Archaeological Trust at the Hungate development are the most extensive in the city since the famous Coppergate dig more than a quarter of a century ago. The five-year project comes to an end in December and visitors will have a final opportunity on Saturday to meet archaeologists, who will talk through some of the remarkable finds. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Roman hoard of coins found on Bredon Hill Posted: 20 Oct 2011 06:48 AM PDT A FARMER has said metal detector enthusiasts "hit the jackpot" when they uncovered the largest hoard of Roman coins ever found in Worcestershire, on his family's land at Bredon Hill. About 4,000 coins, featuring 16 different Roman Emperors, were discovered in June this year and are thought to be of national significance. The farmer, who is not being named by the Journal, said the exact location of the find may never be revealed. He said: "We were really taken aback and shocked by it. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Deckchair protest halts archaeological survey Posted: 20 Oct 2011 06:46 AM PDT A one-man protest momentarily stopped work on a trench being built on what could have been the original site of a manor house in the heart of a village near Frome. Steve Wood sat in his deckchair in the path of a digger on Monday afternoon in protest at part of a field being dug up next to Kilmersdon Village Hall. Mr Wood claims work carried out on behalf of the developer is part of an access road to a nine-house development which so far has not been given planning permission. He said the road is being built prematurely and should not be allowed until permission is granted. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Gold hoard thrown in skip displayed Posted: 20 Oct 2011 06:42 AM PDT A hoard of Early Bronze Age gold that was salvaged from a skip following a botched robbery has gone on display. The ancient artefacts were recovered by gardai in 2009 after being dumped along with the stolen safe they had been kept in at Sheehan's Pharmacy in Strokestown, Co Roscommon. The thieves had not realised that the 5,000-year-old gold was hidden among documents when they tipped out what they thought were the safe's worthless contents. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Vikings and Scotland: 10 lesser known facts Posted: 20 Oct 2011 06:32 AM PDT THE discovery of the first fully intact Viking burial site in the UK - on the Ardnamurchan peninsula - has rekindled public interest in the Norse legacy on our shores. The 16ft-long grave containing the remains of a "high-status Viking" who was buried with an axe, a sword and a spear provides a valuable insight into a period of our history which has fascinated Scots for centuries. But the facts about the Vikings in Scotland bear little resemblence to the stereotypes of helmeted warriors pillaging the land at will. Here we delve a little deeper to examine ten lesser-known traits of our Nordic forebears. Read the rest of this article...  |
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